Oh, such a blessing to encounter you here dear reader!
17.2 is packed with content, from the re-introduction of Opening Encounters to the new God Blessings and Augments, and our typical collection of balance changes—there's a lot, so let's not waste time with this run-on sentence here and instead let's hop right in!
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PATCH HIGHLIGHTS
It's time to hunt demons with Patch 26.9!
In this patch we've got updates to champions, items, systems, and runes galore. Including bringing back some old favorites like Deathfire Touch and Stormraider's Surge, and giving you a lot of new options to experiment with like new starting items and a variety of alternate champion builds. For role quests, we've got some balance changes, tweaks to make progressing them more straightforward, and a small mid lane quest reward rework to better fit a scaling...
Let’s get groovy with Patch 26.8!
In this week’s patch we’ve got some changes to some of the more powerful picks right now like Mel and Dr. Mundo while we’re also helping out some struggling champions like Lucian and Hwei. We’ve also made some changes to help avoid players from taking unusable abilities at level 1 like Zyra and Zilean.
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This patch's live balance is on the smaller side as our focus shifts increasingly toward the season two update next month. We've got some adjustments to the support pool, with Nami and Karma dominating the high-skill support space and Rell all but disappearing. Otherwise, our nerfs are mostly to strong statistical over-performers.
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IT'S SHYVANA TIME Y'ALL!
Welcome to patch 26.6! In this week's patch we have Shyvana's new update hitting the Rift with a brand new model, visual effects, voice over, and skins, all of which will come out alongside her release! We've also got your usual balance changes, a new skinline, Warhounds, and balance changes for Arena and ARAM: Mayhem with a toooon of bugfixes!
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Welcome to the official patch of First Stand, the first major international tournament of the year! This patch we’re making some pro-focused changes, but not as many as we would for a larger tournament like Worlds, which means we’re re-tuning a small handful of mid laners and a single bot laner. Otherwise, we’re continuing to sweep across the roster and delivering buffs and nerfs to each role’s biggest outliers.
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